re: Covid Tests have 30% failure rate

LSUsaint,

Can you please discuss the antibody test? Do you have any studies you could link which show antibody activity to covid19? In particular I would love to see a graph showing IgM and IgG numbers on a time axis from infection onward.

Are antibodies produced within the first week? If so why is that response of the humoral immune system so much more rapid than that to other virus like hepatitis B?

Thank you,
TulaneLSU

P.S. I have it on good authority that the sensitivity of our testing is around 99% assuming a good sample is obtained by the person who swabs the patient. However, I have not seen any studies which support this high number. But I trust my source for that number.

On the matter of mass testing, I believe widespread testing is quite important in a free world because the sooner a person knows he or she is positive the sooner that person can strictly quarantine for at least two weeks. He can also sterilize everything to which he or she has come in contact.

I was thinking the other day that before Mother, Uncle and family return from the Mississippi compound, I want to ensure I do not and did not have the virus. If I do or did, I will need to clean the entire house in a way that I wouldn’t otherwise.